I shove 1080p mp4s onto a very cheap server and I get 2 seconds of load time there versus somewhere between 1 and 2 seconds on youtube. And looking at network requests, the first chunk of the file loads in well under a second so I'd expect something with the metadata preloaded could start playing at that point. So if peertube takes 5 seconds, I really wonder why.

Is it inconvenient to transcode before/during upload?

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corndoge 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If you scale an instance you need to use object storage (s3/b2/etc). Fetch from object storage can occasionally have latency spikes.

5 seconds is somewhat exaggerating, I clicked through 10 or so videos on my instance to check and it's 2-3 seconds most of the time.

	▲	Dylan16807 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		We can exclude rare enough outliers. I've experienced B2 throwing a wrench into the dream of low latency, but some object stores are very fast. And more importantly you only need the first couple megabytes of each video to be on fast storage.